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Man calls 911, reports being held hostage by escaped Georgia inmates

A Tennessee man called 911 after he and his wife were held hostage by Georgia inmates Donnie Rowe and Ricky Dubose. Both men had been on the road since June 13, 2017, when they reportedly killed two prison guards in an escape while in transit to another facility.

A Tennessee man called 911 after he and his wife were held hostage by Georgia inmates Donnie Rowe and Ricky Dubose. Both men had been on the road since June 13, 2017, when they reportedly killed two prison guards in an escape while in transit to another facility. Laura CorleyThe (Macon) Telegraph

A Tennessee man called 911 after he and his wife were held hostage by Georgia inmates Donnie Rowe and Ricky Dubose. Both men had been on the road since June 13, 2017, when they reportedly killed two prison guards in an escape while in transit to another facility. Laura CorleyThe (Macon) Telegraph

Prison bus described as ‘tank full of piranhas’ as guards were slain

Convicts on a Georgia prison bus appeared to laugh and jump around as two corrections officers were shot to death earlier this week in an escape that prompted a nationwide manhunt.

The callousness of the crime has authorities preparing to seek the death penalty for accused killers Ricky Dubose and Donnie Russell “Whiskey” Rowe.

“We’ve got too many of these savages out here. We need to keep them caged up and send those to hell that we can,” Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills said Friday, a day after Rowe and Dubose were caught south of Nashville, Tennessee.

The sheriff has seen surveillance video from the bus that shows Tuesday’s attack on guards Curtis Billue and Chris Monica.

Sills suspects some of the prisoners knew something was afoot by the way they moved to the back of the bus. They may not have known the guards were about to be killed, but their behavior was unsettling.

“They’re no different than a tank full of piranhas,” Sills said. “They’re purposely jumping around and laughing and going on.”

The killings happened along on Ga. 16 between Sparta and Eatonton.

Billue and Monica were taking 33 inmates to the prison at Jackson when Dubose and Rowe, former cellmates, somehow got through a metal barrier on the bus.

“I can see them do it (on the video), but I don’t know how they did it,” Sills said. “You can see them mess with (the lock) a little before they go in. But it was not locked when I got on the bus, and I was the first person on the bus.”

Rowe and Dubose fought the officer who wasn’t driving and somehow got their hands on an officer’s pistol.

“The bus driver gets shot and the guy riding shotgun gets shot and his body collapses down the stairwell of the bus door,” Sills said.

A tracking device on the bus showed that it stopped on the highway south of Lake Oconee at 6:44 a.m.

The accused killers were initially trapped on the bus by the mortally wounded guard lying in front of the door.

After busting a window on the folding exit door and squeezing through, Rowe and Dubose began their three-day flight by commandeering a passerby’s Honda Civic. The car had stopped behind the bus, which was blocking the road.

Video footage shows other prisoners possibly trying to make a break for it, but apparently thinking better of it and returning to the bus.

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Escaped inmates wanted for killing officers on prison bus

Authorities in Georgia have released another photo on Tuesday showing prominent tattoos on one of the two escaped inmates accused of overpowering and killing two guards on a prison bus. Ricky Dubose and Donnie Russell Rowe were last seen headed west on state highway 16 after car-jacking a green Honda Civic. They were armed with the officers' weapons and are considered extremely dangerous.

Authorities in Georgia have released another photo on Tuesday showing prominent tattoos on one of the two escaped inmates accused of overpowering and killing two guards on a prison bus. Ricky Dubose and Donnie Russell Rowe were last seen headed west on state highway 16 after car-jacking a green Honda Civic. They were armed with the officers' weapons and are considered extremely dangerous.

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Once the scene cleared, the accused killers left in the couple’s Jeep Cherokee and threatened the husband and wife that they would come back for them if the couple told on them.

About 15 minutes later, the man was able to break free and called authorities.

A new lookout on the Jeep was posted and deputies spotted the car on Interstate 24, about 50 miles southeast of Nashville.

The chase reached speeds of over 100 mph, Sgt. Dan Goodwin of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office told reporters.

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